The intent of this project after the tragedies that shook 20th century Europe was to envisage America as a land of asylum, a receptacle of the Old World's dramas and an optimistic transformation of the brutality and misery of its wars and revolutions. In the interest of focus, Stéphane Duroy has limited his field of investigation to New York, entry point to America, and the State of Montana, where the slow migration towards the unknown reaches its completion.